Chapter 318: Seventy-Seventh Floor, Euros’s Flower Forest (6)
[Survive. Time remaining: 48 hours 47 minutes.]
The conversation didn’t end there. In fact, after the initial exchange, they shared more information.
For instance, this world had once been home to a flourishing civilization. Unfortunately, after it collapsed, the inhabitants had been forced to rebuild from the ground up.
According to legend, the flower hadn’t always released poisonous spores, nor had they grown densely enough to form forests. They hadn’t attacked humans, either.
Jacob said Euros’s Flower Forest existed to preserve the world’s natural balance, and they saw themselves as its guardians.
It was a history one could reasonably infer.
Considering the advanced weaponry without matching general technology, the tribes living in seemingly uninhabitable zones, and that even this village that remained untouched by pollen, their history was fairly inferable. The clues were all there.
However, when it came to the forest’s center, the elder remained reserved. She simply told me to go see it for myself.
Even when I gently asked about gods, her response was the same.
Honestly, she had a good point—I hadn’t planned to make a decision until seeing for myself, anyway.
The overarching storyline of this floor revolved around the conflict between the tribes that surrounded Euros’s Flower Forest. Some were determined to burn it, while others were equally resolved to protect it.
The former believed the forest with toxic spores needed to be purified by fire. The latter feared that harming it would trigger some greater catastrophe.